A Closed and Common Orbit: Wayfarers 2

Name: A Closed and Common Orbit: Wayfarers 2
Rating: 4.4938273429870605 (162 reviews)

Becky Chambers

Oct 2016 · Hachette UK

4.5

162 reviews

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 HUGO AWARD AND THE ARTHUR C CLARKE AWARD. WINNER OF THE 2017 PRIX JULIA-VERLANGER.

'Chambers is simply an exceptional talent' Tor.com

The stand-alone sequel to the award-winning The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet.

Lovelace was once merely a ship's artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in an new body, following a total system shut-down and reboot, she has to start over in a synthetic body, in a world where her kind are illegal. She's never felt so alone.

But she's not alone, not really. Pepper, one of the engineers who risked life and limb to reinstall Lovelace, is determined to help her adjust to her new world. Because Pepper knows a thing or two about starting over.

Together, Pepper and Lovey will discover that, huge as the galaxy may be, it's anything but empty.

PRAISE FOR THE WAYFARERS

'Never less than deeply involving' DAILY MAIL

'Explores the quieter side of sci-fi while still wowing us with daring leaps of imagination' iBOOKS

'So much fun to read' HEAT

'Warm, engaging, properly science-fictional, A Closed and Common Orbit is a very likable novel indeed' GUARDIAN

'The most fun that I've had with a novel in a long, long time' iO9

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4.5

162 reviews

Daniel Sanham

August 24, 2019

I had really hoped this would be a continuation of the wayfarer crews journeys... it wasn't although it claims to be part of the wayfarer series. I also really couldn't get into the fact every chapter it alternates between two characters stories, I persevered but in reaching the end I can't understand why this was done and felt it took away from the 2 stories as opposed to moving each storyline along in anyway.

rick childs

April 9, 2017

After reading the first book I was looking forward to the sequel but was apprehensive as it being as good. Better than the first as it turned out. Quite expensive though but still worth it. Actually well worth it.

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Douglas Parkinson

February 23, 2017

I loved reading this book. It was a lovely round up of the previous book and an expansion of it's ideas and characters. I loved learning more about Pepper and Blues story and the wonderful universe Becky Chambers continues to indulge their readers in. In short I hope the author keeps writing more sci-fi books in the future because they clearly have a wonderful talent for doing so.

About the author

Becky Chambers is a science fiction author based in Northern California. She is best known for her Hugo Award-winning Wayfarers series, which currently includes The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, A Closed and Common Orbit, and Record of a Spaceborn Few. Her books have also been nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Locus Award, and the Women's Prize for Fiction, among others. Her most recent work is To Be Taught, If Fortunate, a standalone novella. Becky has a background in performing arts, and grew up in a family heavily involved in space science. She spends her free time playing video and tabletop games, keeping bees and looking through her telescope. Having hopped around the world a bit, she's now back in her home state, where she lives with her wife. She hopes to see Earth from orbit one day.

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